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  • noun Plural form of timewaster.

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Examples

  • I read it every day, and I have you on my 'timewasters' links because I'll come and read the new ones (and back logs) for hours (sad but true) 9: 05 AM

    Very, very much. Jessica Hagy 2007

  • I use a free encrypted instant messenger and nothing else, works fine I dont need to waste any of my life or revenue making some cell companies rich to partake in drivel, most folks who think like me certainly do “get it” but dont want it when its a favourite tool of timewasters or drama needy folks.

    Gene twitters his last tweet 2009

  • There is a new game coming out soon from PopCap games, makers of such addictive timewasters as Bejeweled and Peggle.

    2009 April « By Tor's Words Of Wisdom 2009

  • There is a new game coming out soon from PopCap games, makers of such addictive timewasters as Bejeweled and Peggle.

    Don’t eat my brains 2009

  • Of course in thief 3 they threw in the abiity for the factions side quest as to provide some additional use for them but otherwise utter timewasters.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The Most Useless Power-Ups in Videogames 2008

  • I have gotten all my habitual software (WinAmp, assorted Popcap timewasters, the Zune manager, Semagic, Electric Sheep, Eudora, etc.) and am halfway through the semi-endless process of moving my music and other files over.

    i went to hell and to the races netcurmudgeon 2008

  • A senior colleague of mine, a versatile and energetic scientist with a fierce intolerance for timewasters, turned out to be a keen Larry Niven fan: on our first trip to the top of the mountain to make observations from a telescope, he observed that the cloud-blanketed landscape reminded him of Mount Lookitthat.

    MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration? 2008

  • I use a free encrypted instant messenger and nothing else, works fine I dont need to waste any of my life or revenue making some cell companies rich to partake in drivel, most folks who think like me certainly do “get it” but dont want it when its a favourite tool of timewasters or drama needy folks.

    Gene twitters his last tweet 2009

  • Therefore, I have jumped into the whole meme thing and have probably annoyed several fellow bloggers by tagging them with timewasters.

    Interview With JLK JLK 2009

  • Therefore, I have jumped into the whole meme thing and have probably annoyed several fellow bloggers by tagging them with timewasters.

    Archive 2009-02-01 JLK 2009

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